Ye Olde Grumpy Gamer Blog. Est. 2004

What I did during the Pandemic

By Ron Gilbert

As I write this on the 9th day of May in the year of 2020 the Pandemic is far from over. Different people deal with isolation, fear, social distancing and hoarding toilet paper differently. I built a game. It helped keep me sane.

As I mentioned back in March, I began rewriting the Thimbleweed Park engine with no real goal in mind, it just seemed like something to do and I had a few ideas about UI I wanted to explore.

What began as a way to waste time, turned into a fun little game prototype. A little over a month ago David Fox came on, then Robert, Katerina, and Octavi jumped on to help. The game was built almost entirely from existing art, sounds and music from Thimbleweed Park, more of a remixing into a new game that can be seen as an addendum to Thimbleweed Park. It is not a sequel.

We hope you enjoy it, it's complete FREE on Steam and the Epic Store. A strange little game for the strange and stressful times we find ourselves in.

Did I mention it's FREE.

Stay safe and I hope this little game helps, even a little.

In the coming weeks I'll be posting more about the new engine and how it's different and hopefully better.

Zak Phoenix McKracken

May 09, 2020

That's surely a positive effect of the quarantine 😀Thanks for having released it even free, for all of us.

Ennius

May 09, 2020

Hi! Here is Ennius, another Italy adventure-fan.Happy to hear that!!I feel like Franklin during this pandemic. At the beginning of all, I had a big 2do list with a lot of constructive and positive things... Among these, one was that to begin studying AGS engine and try something with it, after I left it almost 15 years ago.

At least I played a lot of Adventure Games of all times since now! XD

Greetings.

Ennius

Mariano

May 09, 2020

Thanks! ui is much more dynamic, excellent work!

Francesco Favia

May 09, 2020

Already downloaded it, Ron you are silent on Fb and on Twitter, why?

Ryan

May 09, 2020

Eager to hear more about the new engine!

Is there a Linux release on the horizon for this, perchance? (I recognize that we're an essentially-zero minority, so if it's no longer worthwhile for you to target Linux, thanks for all the releases that you did make available!)

Yehuda

May 09, 2020

Yay!

I'm really curious about engine rewrite. Is the new one also based on squirrel? What was the old one missing?

Gus

May 09, 2020

Ron, just to make it clear, is this FREE? Thanks.

Ron Gilbert

May 09, 2020

Linux might show up. It's a new engine and a completely new backend and there is only so much that I can do and I wanted to get the game out.

Eigendrea

Ariel Bosi

Nik

Any chance of a direct download for us casual adventurers without Steam accounts.

David Fox

May 09, 2020

I loved working on this game! So happy you all can now enjoy it too. I do not want the pandemic to last any longer, but it's a great diversion while it does. Enjoy!

Chris Barnard

May 09, 2020

Thanks so much Ron, this is the best news I could have wished for today! Hopefully the new engine will be used for another RG adventure game in the future!

Tommy Hand

May 09, 2020

Will this be available on GoG? Small thing but that's where I own Thimbleweed Park and I like to keep things together

Gail P. Sherman

May 09, 2020

Hmm... I don't have any sound.

Guywood Threepbrush

May 09, 2020

Thank you, Ron!

Kolzig

May 09, 2020

Oh wow! Thank you Ron, David & co.!

Thorw4ld

May 09, 2020

WOW! This is amazing, thank you so much Ron!

Lasse

May 09, 2020

Wow, thats excellent and completely unexpected news. Made my weekend. Thank you Mr Gilbert and rest of the team.

Romi

May 09, 2020

The world is a shitty place, but it's a little bit better because Ron Gilbert lives on it.

NoTaMu

May 09, 2020

I join Tommy Hand question. Could we get it on GoG?Also, thank you so much for all your magnificent present and past artworks =)

Ron Gilbert

May 09, 2020

Unlike Steam, GOG is "invite only". It is up to them if they want the game. Also, unlike Steam, the GOG store pages needs to be created by them, we only upload the game.

thomasmolby

May 09, 2020

This is such a nice surprise. Thank you!

Aaron

May 09, 2020

Lovely surprise. Cheers!

Christian Gilhuus

May 09, 2020

Fantastic news!! Thank you so much for providing so many great adventuregaming moments throughout the years! Keep on pushing Disney for the rights to the Monkey Island IP - they HAVE to budge, at some point..!

Tommy Thorn

May 09, 2020

Oh wow, the interface is much nicer and faster too.

Brian Ruff

May 09, 2020

Thank you Ron and David and team!!!

huy

May 09, 2020

good

JanW

May 09, 2020

Wow! You are simply the best! Thank you so much for this beautiful little gift! All my best wishes to you and your team!

Lukas

May 09, 2020

This is super super cool! Thank you for this. I'm a big fan of the classic SCUMM games and also played through Thimbleweed Park. I can do a Linux port for free if you want, also for ARM64. I just launched an open hardware laptop (MNT Reform) that runs only Linux and I would love to play this (and Thimbleweed Park) on it.

Iron Curtain

May 09, 2020

I realize you couldn't do GOG because it's curated. However, you could do itch.io. Do you have any plans to upload your game to itch.io?

JB

May 09, 2020

Steam says "you need at least windows 10 ". i initially thought that was another of Ron's jokes; but no. I can run thimbleweed park on my win 7 PC without any problem, but that one, I can't. Any idea?

Peter Brodersen

May 09, 2020

Lovely revisit! Happy birthday to your mom!

Ron Gilbert

May 09, 2020

My new engine requires dx12, this game doesn't need it, but future games will and getting all that tech in place was part of what this prototype was for. We tried to work around this, but it wasn't easy without a lot of rearchitecting code.

Eric

May 09, 2020

What a surprise!! Thank you!! :o

Immediately installing ;)

Armand

May 09, 2020

Great, instead of playing the actual game, like I should, I'm busy decoding the modem sounds at the end of the trailer.

Luca Ferrario

May 09, 2020

Thanks Ron & David! The new interface is wonderfull! It will be fantastic to see another adventure with this interface!

Matthew

May 09, 2020

Brilliant, a very pleasant surprise and a lovely ointment for every fans sanity!

Tom

May 09, 2020

Haven't had time to check it out yet, but roughly looked at the pictures. As a big time fan of the verbs... are they gone in your new engine or will they return, or maybe even be optional? Happy to see you working on adventure games again and crossing fingers that there might be more. :)

Tom Bowman

May 09, 2020

looks like I will be returning to Thimbleweed Park in the near future I already finished Thimbleweed Park but it will be awesome to come back to this universe

moe

May 09, 2020

game doesnt run for me (probably because i am running win 10 demoversion) :( still big thanks for putting a new game out probalby gonna watch a yt video then, i am very hyped to see, what story u came up with this time.

Cheeseness

May 09, 2020

Exciting times!It looks like you've got people offering to help regarding Linux stuff, but I'd be happy to share my knowledge/experience as a porter if that's of value.Congrats on shipping a new thing and making a new piece of tech!

Crichtob

May 09, 2020

Please get in touch with GOG! That's where I bought Thimbleweed Park. I'm sure they will be more than pleased to have this one.

Samuel

May 09, 2020

Thank you!

Helge Frisenette

May 09, 2020

You guys are, and forever will be my heros, for all the great games you made.You are equal to Lucas and Spielberg in importance. The rest of the world just haven't totally caught up yet.I hope you have the success you surely deserve.Even if not, knowing you did what you did, and that the quality is acknowledged by so many so loyally, must be heartening.

Someone

May 09, 2020

@Ron: Would it be possible to put the game on Itch.io or another DRM free download platform? I just don't want install Steam or the Epic Store just for that game. Or is it DRM free on Steam? So would it be possible to run the game without the Steam client?

Someone

May 09, 2020

And of course: Thanks for the game! 😀

Ron Gilbert

May 09, 2020

I looked into Itch.io a while back and you basically had to supply your own installer, I just don't have the time/brain-space for that. I could have also been wrong or just upload a .zip. Also, just setting up a store page is a lot of work. We've all be swamped the past 5 weeks. There is no DRM in the game.

Bokkie

May 09, 2020

Thanks!Won't Proton from Valve run the game? That would be easier than porting.

Ron Gilbert

May 09, 2020

Based on people trying, Proton does not. I think it claims to be win10 and isn't, or maybe the other way around.

Miguel Alves

May 09, 2020

Any chance you will port this to touch platforms like iPad OS? Would the new UI work well?

Ron Gilbert

May 09, 2020

The new UI was designed to work well with touch, but this game won't be ported to mobile or any other platforms. It's basically a prototype.

Pavel

May 09, 2020

Thanks :)

Miguel Alves

May 09, 2020

Cool! Thanks for releasing the mini game :) I will try to get my hands on my old Mac as soon as the lockdown is over to play the game.

Petit Prince

May 09, 2020

Ha, I was just using this hiatus to do my own translations of the old SCUMM games, and you release a new game, thanks ;)

Oh, and I wanted you to know that, if I could only have a tiny suitcase to pick the most meaningful things in my life, I think now I know which single book and which single album I'd take. As for the game, well it'd be one of yours, and that's something I knew immediately while I was wandering through the tunnels of Dinky Island as a child, 17 years ago. An emotion still bigger than me.

Thank you so much Ron, 'cause you're wonderful!

Anastasi

May 09, 2020

Thank you Ron Gilbert, you just gave a little bit of sanity back to me.

Matthew

May 09, 2020

I wrote to GOG to suggest they invite you to add it.

Eric

May 09, 2020

Just played for over an hour! Thanks Ron, I really appreciate having a free game to play.

I suppose you're looking to test things out, see how it goes.... and well, I like the new interface however it felt like I was opening folders on my windows PC and right clicking for menu options a lot of time

In a way, it was more intuitive... it just makes sense to have the options on the item. In another way, I felt like it made things a little too easy at times and playing with a trackpad was more challenging.

With the old interface, I could click on the keyboard shortcuts to open a drawer and then pick up an item... and now, I have to double tap click on the trackpad. I assume this would be a non-issue with a mouse (the way it's probably intended to be played).

While the start seemed easy, I did really enjoy the ability to take a photograph of multiple items that don't do anything. In a way, it adds a level of difficulty without harming/killing the player.

Unfortunately, I think there might be a bug with saving the state of the game as after an hour of player, the game is saying I have 5 pictures but Natalie won't accept any. (She just says: "Yes", those are good. Let me remove the bad ones.) And since I can't submit the photographs, the game doesn't save. In other words, it feels like I have to restart the game after playing for an hour. (Not complaining, I understood there might be bugs / this was free / proceed at your own risk)

Overall, this is very pleasant. The ability to take photographs of nearly everything makes it much more challenging (in a good way) and the interaction is quite intuitive. You could put someone into the game without any instructions and they'd figure things out. For example, dragging items from the inventory works really well and is something that a new player would intuitively do.

I do kind of wish there could be a hybrid mode where you could still use classic keyboard shortcuts to do things like open drawers, look inside, pick things up AND/OR use the new interface.

The new interface works well (but I feel in some instances, it makes the game feel a little easier as it essentially gives you the second option without making you think about it).

Does the new interface make the game MORE fun to play? It's new, it's improved but I feel quite neutral about it. I think it opens up more options beyond just pick up... (you had 'move ladder right' / 'move ladder left') but then again, in the past, you could have used pull / push to accomplish the same thing.

However, I felt a bit less accomplishment as a player because I didn't have to specify pick up, pull, push, look at, talk to, etc.

Thanks for the free game, I really appreciate it and you've certainly made a lot of us happy. I'm definitely enjoying running around trying to solve the puzzles. You make great games and I hope this feedback is useful!

- Eric

Ron Gilbert

May 09, 2020

The game doesn't really have a save game, it's only when you turn in 5 good photos (checking every off on your list) is the state saved. Again, not something I'd do in a full game.

Brian

May 09, 2020

Ron, you may have said it before, but what language do you do your coding in?

Ron Gilbert

May 09, 2020

The engine is written in c++, but the game is in my new languages called Dinky. I will be talking about it more over the next few weeks.

FrancescoF

May 09, 2020

Ron's new language is called dinky.. like in his old Post he is not saying much at all about the new game.. mmm .. maybe Monkey island 3a is coming?

Sergio

May 09, 2020

Just uploading a .zip to itch.io is perfectly acceptable. A lot of people just download and extract themselves manually. There's also a Steam-like itch app, but that also copes fine with just a .zip file.

Alien426

May 09, 2020

Thank you, Terrible Toybox.

Frank

May 09, 2020

what's the secret of monkey island? ... and is that really your password?

Bill Gates

May 10, 2020

"You need at least Windows 10". For what??

Ron, please!

Matt

May 10, 2020

Great! Anyway, I'll have to wait for the linux version.

Wayne

May 10, 2020

Thanks Ron. Can't wait to give his a run. From Australia.

PS Please do Monkey Island 3, even if it is illegal. We will bust you out of jail if it comes to that.

Stefan

May 10, 2020

Thank you for all your work! But I will wait for a Linux version (Windows-free household here) and maybe it will even be available on GOG in the future, which would be nice.Until then I will play Thimbleweed Park once more ;-) All the best for you and thank you again!

omniplay

May 10, 2020

Wooooow! This is soooo cool. I am so grateful to get this. Would definitely pay for it 😀 Cheers!

Averell

May 10, 2020

Thanks Ron, again a nice remain to our childhood. 😀

chuso

May 10, 2020

I´ve recent end Thimbleweed Park and i liked a lot! This things bring us light in the darkness! You´re great!

e

May 10, 2020

Some quick thoughts from a user experience perspective... Not about the game as such, but the interface.

1) Overall – very nice. Getting rid of the verbs while cleverly keeping them should keep both ye olde verb-clickers and the contemporary "What are all these words doing on my screen?"-people more or less happy. Eating the cake and keeping it at the same time – while not confining oneself to a fixed set of verbs.

2) Not having to read / hear a line like "That doesn't seem to work." hundreds of times during the course of a game is a big plus.

3) Pressing period to skip a line of dialogue strikes me as a weird remnant of some bygone interface that shouldn't be a thing in 2020. What's wrong with (right) clicking to skip a line? I found myself keeping one finger constantly hovering above the period key while playing the game. It's not intuitive, and that makes it feel like it's working against to the need to make a new interface in the first place.

How is this handled on a touch interface? By making line-skipping impossible or by introducing a new UI button during discussions?

4) Hiding alternate verbs in a popup menu has the disadvantage of making the player right-click anything and everything just in case, mostly to discover there's nothing new in the menu (at least in this game). This amounts to nothing but a lot of pointless clicking, and could end up being more annoying than "That doesn't seem to work." in the long run.

It would be great if the mouse pointer could visually indicate that there's more to the object being pointed at than left-clicking? A little plus sign or something? This is harder to implement on a touch-based device, of course, but could something be done for the desktop users?

5) The slow non-pixel-perfect zoom at the beginning didn't look very good. Pixels and zooming don't go well together, in my opinion. But that's nitpicking at this point, I guess, as it has nothing to do with the interface...

The interface fells pretty good, overall. It's not exactly reinventing the wheel, as far as adventure game interfaces go, although I can't seem to remember games that would work exactly like this, for some reason... It does remind me of Kult (aka. Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess, for some reason...), one of my favourite old games. Clicking on things in Kult brings up a selection of verbs that are specific to that object. Many of the verbs are superfluous and only brings up different (and not necessarily useful) descriptions of the object or have no practical use at all, but it's a fun system. The results of clicking those verbs are perhaps closer to what would happen in an Infocom adventure, as most of it is text – there's no way anybody would have the time or the resources to animate all that extra stuff.

Check it out if you're interested. Exxos (later Cryo), France, 1989. fantastic pixel art (based on concept art by French comic book artist Philippe Caza), and in my opinion excellent sound design for the time. Flawed as an adventure game, but really good atmosphere and environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm2r5ZqZg6k

The new engine seems perfectly fine too. However one wouldn't know that this is a whole new engine unless told so. As others have said, it would be nice to hear in more detail what compelled you to make a new engine when you already had one that appeared to be very good?

I'm happy that you guys are still keeping at this. I hope this means we'll get a whole new adventure at some point!

dada

May 10, 2020

Please Ron, for the love of god! i beseech Thee put it on GOG or Itch or someplace no account is needed and release it for Linux.

DanVzare

Any chance you could make it fallback on Direct X 11 if you're not on Windows 10, for all of us Windows 8 and 7 users?

DinkyBlacky

May 10, 2020

No win10, I can't play that game (but finished the original, very good fun!), but just wanted to say thanks, Ron! (for this and for all the great moments with past games).

Shawn

May 10, 2020

Loved all of this; the concept, the puzzles, the interface, everything. Only thing I would change would be right-click to skip text and that's a tiny quibble. Thanks for this awesome and free surprise!

Phil

May 10, 2020

Thank you Ron! This might be the single best thing to come out of the pandemic yet. I'm really looking forward to play this.Thimbleweed park has single-handedly rekindled my love for adventure games, so this totally made my day!

Björn Tantau

May 10, 2020

Nice, thanks!

On the topic of engines, have you looked at engge? It's a new implementation of the TP engine.

Johnny Walker

May 10, 2020

Fun little game!

Feedback on the interface:

1. I liked being able to click on something and for the default action to happen quickly and easily, but I ended up having to right-click on everything to see if there were any hidden options. It was a bit frustrating.

Possible suggestion: Left-click brings up options. Right-click does default. (This is because I was playing on a track pad and right-click was slightly more annoying than left.)

3. Traipsing around Thimbleweed Park isn't the most fun. A map to fast-travel to ANY visited location would have been great.

Thanks for this!

Paul Nicholas

May 10, 2020

Hi Ron,Just completed the new Delores mini-game.LOVED it! Was so good to be back in the town(I'd forgotten how much I missed that music, art and atmosphere) ☺

In case it's of any use - I've passed on some of my thoughts & observations while playing to David (didn't wanna include the link here in public)

Overall, VERY impressed with it - it felt just like being back in the original (with some nice additions! 😀 )

I'm also excited to learn more about the engine - especially now that I've realised that you're blogging about it again (I might even try to nick a feature or two, should I ever get 'round to updating SCUMM-8 ever again! :skull: )

Anyway, hope it helps.Stay safe, & all the best! 😀

Johnny Walker

May 10, 2020

Oh, and I agree that it feels odd not to be able to skip a line of dialogue by clicking somehow. (Although I appreciate the "." option from old LEC games being left in.)

Diduz

May 10, 2020

This was such a nice surprise! I also liked the spooky trailer. Looking forward to your posts concerning the engine. 😀

Johnny Walker

May 10, 2020

Oh, and one final thing... It's annoying to have to click the top left hand corner of the screen to close a close-up (eg. assignment list). Why not just let me click anywhere to close those rooms? :)

Bresus Cheezus

May 10, 2020

Thank you for this! You mentioned that David, Robert, Katerina, and Octavi helped. By chance, did Jenn Sandercock help too? I know she was on the original team and I adored her edible games cookbook which she did afterwards. I really loved all her little touches to Thimbleweed (secret note!) and I hope we get more of them in another release of yours.

mafti

May 10, 2020

Is it possible to pay for it (if i like it of course)

Ignacio

Simplex

May 10, 2020

Hi, it's awesome of you to give us a free game.Unfortunately I have issues with shound - it stutters and distorts for a split second at random intervals, it's hard to describe but it's really annoying. Does anyone else have that problem?

Simplex

May 10, 2020

I meant to say I have issues with sound, not shound. Should have written "audio" ;)

Evan

May 10, 2020

Great news! I'll be sure to check this out when I finish Breath of the Wild. I'm a one game at a time kinda guy. Really glad to see more coming from Terrible Toy Box!

Hernsn

May 10, 2020

WOW!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I played Maniac Mansion and thimbleweed park all over againwith my girlfriend during this quarantine !! This is such a great news!!!! Thank uuuu!!

Cheers from Argentina!!

Please keep making video games !!! <3 <3 <3

fuhgawz

May 10, 2020

I LOVE YOU GUYSthanks

Markward

May 10, 2020

Very much appreciated

Fuz

May 10, 2020

Thank you so much, Ron!As a long time fan and a backer of Thimbleweed Park I'm super happy to get "in there" again!Cheers from Sardinia.

Johnny Walker

May 10, 2020

That was fun! Thanks for that!

Panos

May 10, 2020

Seems like I figured out the hidden story in the new thimbleweed park engine test. Delores is still at the machine and the ghost "sightings" are reality trying to sip in. Also the specks of dust are fleeting bytes of information.....

Christian

May 10, 2020

Thanks so much for your great work. I'll enjoy this game.Please fight for Monkey Island. One day they have to understand how much it means to you and us. We'll support you!Best regards from germany

Alvaro

May 10, 2020

Thanks for this to Ron and all the team!

Johnny Walker

May 10, 2020

Hey Ron, I'd be really interested to learn how you approach writing your own scripting language. Any chance you could do a few technical posts, or maybe even a video, explaining your approach? Thanks!

Ron Gilbert

May 10, 2020

@Johnny Walker: I plan on doing that. Maybe next week when everything has calmed down with the Release.

Jeff

May 10, 2020

Is there a way to get this without the DRM wrapper of Steam and Epic? Humblebundle? direct download?

Panos

May 10, 2020

thank you for this. I really enjoyed playing through it and going back into the world. I wasn't quick enough to write your password but maybe next time...

Cathal

May 11, 2020

Please release it at gog.com like the Game itself , I have all my Games there because I hate DRM

MoonKid

May 11, 2020

Thanks a lot for investing your time and trying to release it "for free" for "everyone".But it is not free - because I have to use Steam or Epic. Why the hack?

I am wondering why an old stager like you supporting structures like that. Why not just offering a download link?

kind

beedaddy

May 11, 2020

Great, thanks!And +1 for a Linux version.

Pat

May 11, 2020

Any chance seeing the game on the MS store? I played the original "anywhere" (PC/ Xbox console), liked the feature very much, but nevertheless, it's a pleasure hearing again from you.

Thanks a lot, greetings from Germany.

Playtron-3000

May 11, 2020

I was so excited about this, only to find out that there's no Linux-version. Bummer :o(

Michael

May 11, 2020

Dear Ron, many thanks for your effort. Unfortunately I do not have (and want) Steam etc - so please release this gem on Gog, too. Btw: my C64 screams for a new adventure, too. It has many new features nowadays like RamExpansionUtility, damn fast loading times...also my Amiga is still running and waiting for input.

Rob

May 11, 2020

Thanx for the fish, Ron. Great!

Daniel Wolf

May 11, 2020

I'm really looking forward to learning more about Dinky! I'd love to hear what existing languages inspired you and where you chose to do your own thing.

Also, how does Dinky work under the hood? Parser generator or hand-rolled parser? Interpreter or bytecode?

Sjors

May 11, 2020

Will this also come to the Nintendo Switch at some point in some way or form?

Dave

May 11, 2020

It's just totally by accident I found myself checking up on how you're doing and this has made my week! Going to get it downloaded tonight. Cheers from Scotland!

Archillies

May 11, 2020

Thanks for thinking of your fans while on stay-at-home. Also looking forward to more on Dinky! Stay Safe!

Alone

May 11, 2020

Eres adorable, so sweetie ^^ Gracias!!

akoepfer

May 11, 2020

Thanks for the game, but GOG would be great. Now I have a (useless) EPIC account and have to download a f*cking launcher., that I don't want, because there is no possibility to download only the game.

Chin

May 11, 2020

Did you read the new post?

LowLevel

May 11, 2020

Hello Ron, thanks for this nice little prototype.

I didn't expect to return to Thimbleweed Park, I've enjoyed the short drive!

ZockerkingT

May 11, 2020

Thank you so much! Please develop more games like Thimbleweed Park (maybe part 2 ). The world needs games like this.

Simon

May 11, 2020

Besides all excitement about the engine, which I share:I really enjoy the photojournalism puzzle. IMO that kind of puzzle is exactly what I am hoping for in adventure games. Not just simple "use X with Y" inventory driven puzzles, or "linear room unlocking", but puzzles which are truly interactive with the whole game world. (Now imaging also sound being involved, or more complex dialogues, switching between characters, etc).Replay value is also very high - e.g., for each playthrough a slightly different subset of tasks could be presented. Please, keep on designing puzzles like this one!

Jonas

May 11, 2020

Thank you for this! This world is so soothing and comfortable. I missed that sound track, the friendly and innocent jokes. This is great pandemic-a-reno stuff.

Rob

May 11, 2020

Thank you so much; this exactly what I needed !! Looking forward to a real sequel or new game, cannot wait to see what comes next.

If you want feedback on the new UI: I like how it makes things flow but I feel that causes me to read less and thus Perhaps I miss details (that make your games so adorable). I dislike the options of items being hidden behind a right-click; maybe a classic menu at the bottom could slide up on a hover or click of an item instead.

Anyway, I love what you do, stay healthy and keep on rocking!

Best regards from Germany,Rob

Johnny Walker

May 11, 2020

@RonGilbert Wonderful. Looking forward to it!

Iron Curtain

May 11, 2020

Okay, I finished the prototype, and I watched the credits sequence, and couldn't stop laughing! Very well done, El Gilberto!

icarrera

May 11, 2020

So, are you doing CI from day zero this time? /wink

Akomander

May 11, 2020

Awesome! More Thimbleweed is always a good thing.

Hey Gilbert, the game in only in English. I could fix a quick translation to Spanish for free if you let me :)

OzzieMonkey

May 11, 2020

You sir, are a God among men. We don't deserve to be spoiled so. It's truly amazing that in this time of crisis, you made a game for us, just for the pure love of the art. That's incredibly generous, thankyou Ron.

Saschas

May 12, 2020

Hi Ron,

thanks a lot and I mean it! I loved Thimbleweed Park and I'm happy to see this little... spin-off? I grew up with all you other games and am happy to see that there's still new material coming out. Likewise with the C&C guys next month. Good old times, right?

I hope you've got a new project in line. Can't wait to play the next game made/produce/directed by you.

Have a nice day and stay healthy!

Funky Brewster

May 12, 2020

+1 Linux

Roman

May 13, 2020

Thanks for that little spin-off...really enjoyed it.

Am I the only one who gets the little graphic bug from time to time where parts are flashing and showing different art?For example if you meet Willie and he leaves the scene and you go further to the left. Then the violin repair shop flashes and shows a broken down house for a second before it restores to normal.

But anyway...loved playing it....and bad luck for you since I now know your password ;-)

OzzieMonkey

May 13, 2020

@Roman I think that's intentional, it's meant to clue you in that things are different from when you were last in Thimbleweed Park ( to put it vaguely as to avoid spoilers for others)

Roman

May 13, 2020

@OzzieMonkeycould be, if I'm not mistaken there was a different place (was it before the bank?) where it showed serveral character art overlapping for a flash of a second....Anyway....both didn't give me a clue....it was more like a glitch (in the matrix) .....but hey....it didn't stop me from playing ;-)

Emma

May 13, 2020

Loved it! And I especially enjoyed the credits.

Delores (not that one)

I miss the days when games came on floppies and inserting a disk and running the game's executable (or boot from the floppy, especially for non-PC platforms) was all you needed to do to run it. Now it's all packages this and Internet that, but it's not gotten any easier.

Big Red Button

May 13, 2020

I just read about it and immediately installed and started it. I'm looking forward to play it now.Thank you very much, Ron!

Steve

May 13, 2020

This should be a welcome respite from the soul-crushing drudgery of The Banner Saga, which I've been playing lately. I actually took a break from it to do MI1-3, and I'm currently in 3. That can probably wait while I play this new thing, though. Thank you, sir!

Giovi

May 15, 2020

What a great news!!!!I was wondering if it's a way to download it as off-line package, to keep it safe on my HD instead of depending on internet connection and somebody other's computer, as I did with Thimbleweed Park...

Giovi

May 15, 2020

Gosh, it requires Windows 10 :,-(

Ron Gilbert

May 15, 2020

Technically, it requires dx12. If you set checkOSVersion: 0 in Prefs.json it will skip the os check, but you still need dx12 and it might fail ungracfully (which is why we just made it a requirement).

Giovi

May 15, 2020

Interesting. I got it from Epic Games (I later copied the whole folder to another place in my HD to see if it runs without to launch it as Epic Games app).

I tried to make a text file named Prefs.json with the given sentence, but it's ignored by the game.

Ron Gilbert

May 15, 2020

The pref file is located at AppData\Roaming\Terrible Toybox\Delores\Prefs.json

Giovi

May 15, 2020

Of course it doesn't go far... just to the next error box.Ron, you have the power to do what nobody else does: to make me upgrade my PC to Windows 10, LOL(ok, not on my main PC, I will do that on the backup one... there's a limit to everything ;-)

Steve

May 16, 2020

Loved Delores......really enjoyed the credits. But mine ran out just as you were about to say what the Secret to Monkey Island is......Oh and DT is still an id10t!

Steve

May 16, 2020

Oh -- and thanks from the bottom of my heart for all of the hours of fun that you've provided.....

Nathan

May 23, 2020

I Love your games and I just finished Thimbleweed Park for the second time. I'm on Linux and would like to play Delores too.